Find a Local Atheist, Skeptic, Humanist, or Freethought Community Near You
Searching for a secular community? Many atheists miss the communal aspect that church provides but want to avoid the religious sermons, dogma, and superstitious nonsense because they no longer believe in god? Do you want to find an “atheist church,” or at least a group of like-minded freethinkers, humanists, and skeptics to hang out with, enjoy potlucks, drinks, movies, and have great, intellectually stimulating conversations with?
Look no further!
Below are a list of the best tools to find a local secular organization to join:
Sunday Assembly
Sunday assembly is a secular celebration of life. Where you can meet with other atheists, sing songs, have potlucks, and promote good in the world. They have inspiring events and caring communities in over 70 locations around the world.
Oasis
Oasis is a lot like church without the religion, bearing the slogan, People are more important than ideas. They have locations in the US and Canada and are growing quickly.
Skeptics in the Pub
Not a fan of the church-like setting? Grab food and a few drinks with fellow non-believers. Skeptics in the Pub is more of a hang out with nonreligious friends because who doesn't like having a few atheist drinking buddies?
Atheist Republic Consulates
Atheist Republic Consulates are meetups around the world that provide atheists with a sense of community and can be as simple as a few people having a conversation. If there's not a consulate in your city, you can head on over to atheist republic and start one.
Atheist Meetups
Many atheist groups get started via meetup. It's a great site for finding skeptic, humanist, atheist, and freethinker groups in your area. And if you can't find an atheist meetup in your area, you can start one.
Secular Student Alliance
The Secular Student alliance is an association of non-religious high school and college groups around the United States. Many atheist students feel isolated and alone, but can with affiliates springing up all over the country, that will soon be a thing of the past.
American Atheists Affiliates
Over 170 secular groups, in the US, have become affiliates of American Atheists. It's free for your group to become an affiliate, and there are a number of perks that come with it, but your organization is expected to support to support separation of church and state.
Secular Directory
The Secular Directory has one of the largest lists of secular groups organizations (both in the US and internationally).
International Humanist, Freethought, or Skeptic Groups
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) has put together this tool to help you find groups all over the world.
US-Based Humanist Groups
The American Humanist Association has a collection of over 225 humanist groups throughout the US that can be easily searched for using their search tools and directory of humanist organizations.
Secular Groups in Canada
The AeONetwork connects Freethought, Secular Humanist, and Atheist Organizations/Individuals throughout Canada under one network umbrella. Use their map to find an atheist group in Canada.
Wikipedia List of Irreligious Organizations
A large list of non-religious organizations in various countries.
I live in the city of Bell in Los Angeles, CA.
I am looking for a group of free thought Atheists or Sceptics. I need some contacts. Thank you.
Carl Williams
I am wondering if there are any groups in the Culpeper VA area.
looking for persons in pgh pa
We’re in Pittsburgh, PA. Are there any groups that you’ve found in the area?
Wondering if there are any groups in upstate New York that accept teenagers? I could use a community!
Elyn. Me too.
Kenyan.
Anyone else?
Any group within New York city or Paterson, New Jersey??
Hello, I was wondering the same thing. I’m in downtown Jersey city and I was surprised to not really find anything around here.
Battle Creek, Michigan? Anyone?
This is a long shot since you made this post 3.5 years ago- but I am also looking for a group in Battle Creek. Have you had any luck?
We are a group of individuals who do not hold to a God but rather acknowledge the authority of Creation and the laws that govern it as well as accepting earlier centuries of alien visitation from other planets to Earth. Our group is in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
Anyone near Barstow CA? Looking for NON religious groups for support.
Hi anyone is Jacksonville Florida?
In😁
Anyone near Lex Tn
Any groups in Macon, Georgia?
1/25/2023
AEO doesn’t seem to be active
http://www.humanisttoronto.ca Humanist Association Toronto active
Any in visalia ca
I am looking for fellow atheists in Berlin, Germany. Best wishes, Sandra
On meetup there is the North Jersey Atheist group
Anyone in or near Portsmouth, Ohio?
I’m new but I am very interested.
Please offer anonymous contact options, we really need those. Also, identify any freedom prioritising movement because we all should help eachother.
The open-source movement and Bitcoin movement (seperation of money and state) for example.
Also, a collection of toughts found on various yt videos:
Toughtfull statements during the genesis epoch, when decoupling state from church combined with the new decouplement of state and money.
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* My question was: Why would a so-described fair and loving God first create me when I didn’t ask to be created, and then condemn me to eternal suffering and damnation for losing a game I didn’t ask to play?
* “God” is not undefined. And the things that are defined, can be disproven (philosophically or scientifically or conceptually)
* if god has a predetermined plan for everything, you’ve spent most of your life actively fighting gods plan with prayers.
* If heaven exists, I condemn every family member in it for letting me in the dark about what good things I could do.
* Why does god allow people to be killed because of misconceptions of his destructible book?
* If god were so intelligent and good, he would understand that many people cannot believe statements of something if they don’t know proof for it. Because without proof, that statement is indistinguishable from any other statements.
* Why am I having to explain God’s actions? Or in other words: “Why is it our job to make excuses for his behavior?”
* Satan states Job only loves God because his life is good. If his life was tough, he wouldn’t love God. God allows Satan to test Job with bad things. Why does God allow this? If God was all knowing, he knows what will happen. Satan knows God knows everything. What is the point? If God loves us, why torture someone to prove something that is already known? Let’s change characters. My friend Bob from accounting says my dog only loves me because I treat it well. If I were to be cruel to the dog, it would stop loving me. So I then go and kick the dog to prove it loves me. That isn’t love, that is abuse. If I loved the dog, I would have told Bob from accounting to go to hell. So why is God bowing to Satan’s demands? What does God have to prove to Satan? What audience is God proving this to?
* “If Hell is real then every person there is a shining example of how God failed.”
* Are the quran and bible so bad because it is written for ancient dumb stupid people? If so, shouldn’t it be rewritten for todays intelligence levels? Surely believers are confident that it would be easy for God to do that? The gospel of the Giant Spaggetti Monster is a good first step.
* If God transcends logic, everyone can think up of a God that transcends logic and be equally valid, which means that we have no way of telling which one is right, which one is wrong or how they differ. And it also cannot be known if people talk about the same god or not.
* What happens to people who never get a chance to learn about God?” The answer usually was, “They go to heaven anyway.” Took me a while to come up with a follow up question: “Then shouldn’t we keep it a secret?”
* What’s the difference between a god that works in mysterious ways and a universe that functions without one?”
* If he’s so forgiving, why didnt he forgive Adam and Eve over that simple little apple and cursed us all over it.
* If Jesus could walk on water, could he also swim on the ground?”
* How could lucifer convert pure spirits in haven that only wanted to follow and praise god and knew he was all powerfull? what was heaven if it wasnt good enough for them?
* “It’s funny that people only speak to god inside their own heads, it’s as if that’s the only place he exists”.
* Why does god not intervene like you would, does he like it?
* That so many people believe in god doesn’t make their believes true. Otherwise ancient people would have to know everything, as everything they stated should be deemed valid using the same logic.
* Adam and eve `merica asia
* John 3:16 is often quoted by Christians when they try to explain what God’s love really means, but if you read the context up to verse 21, you will see that God’s love is conditional.
* He SAID, “Let there be light.” So… sound was already a thing.
* If you believe in nicest god, go to haven, If not, go to cruelest place (hell)
If you believe in cruelest god, go to heaven, If not, go to hell (but only earth is cruelest)
better root for the cruelest god there can be.
* “I’ve seen enough people be animals out there to know that if God made us in his own image, God is every bit as feral as the things he creates.”
* If God is all knowing, then why do christians have to go to church to seemingly demonstrate their love for God, when they could just do it at home?
* If everyone had to come from something, where does god come from? Religion cannot claim an answer to this paradox either.
* Why would God give you a brain and then condemn you for using it?”🤔
* Why did god wait so long to send the prophets and jesus?
* Why send the flood instead of just sending one of the prophets sooner or teaching us how to be good in another way?
* The belief that someone should be infinitely tortured for a finite crime is unquestionably immoral.
* Religious artifacts never possess any property that that religion claims exist, they are quite fragile.
* Religions haven’t stood the test of time. They’ve cheated the test of time.
* If you’re claiming any Gods exist, then you’re making a truth claim, about a reality of which I’m a part and it’s your burden to substantiate it.”
* How do you know you are reading the right gospel? How to be sure that the author wasn’t corrupted by the beast?
* Heaven is pure happiness, there cannot be anger or unhappiness. Heaven is pure bliss”. “Then why did Lucifer become so angry and unhappy
* Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings
* If angels have no free will but we do, what makes free will so good? Either angels lack something fundamentally good, or religion claims free will is bad.
* I don’t want to believe. I want to know – carl seagan
* How can a source be absolute truth if that source can be mis-interpreted?
* Searching the Quran for verses to re-interpret so that they can pretend they knew it already.
* Radical Islam is the snake hiding in the grass. Islam is the grass hiding the snake.
* “All Muslims are just one push away from becoming extremist..” (Just one verse away from finding justification to declare jihad)
* What role do muslima waifu play if she went to muslim ‘paradise?
* Honestly, why does allah allow child marriages in the middle-east.
* What about the people who don’t believe in god that have more than what they need?
* Man didn’t know the difference between right and wrong until they ate from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” then why did god punish them for eating from it? They didn’t know what they were doing was wrong
* Can people be more intelligent then satan?
* Religious people determine good and evil via a book, not logic.
* Any creator would have to have a sense of humour.
* Parents should physically teach religion just as much as god wants to show himself physically (aka he doesn’t, so christianity also shouldn’t be shown to children)
* If religious people don’t want your guide to the truth, because they don’t do harm to you, why would god help you if you don’t do harm to him?
* If you can’t think of an ultimate proof to convince atheists of theism, you don’t understand atheism.
* If everyone is expected to read the bible, quran etc, compare them to eachother and choose the right version or face eternity in hell, how can we expect to have a functioning society if everyone wastes time on reading the wrong content?
* When not understanding a situation and attributing it firmly to god, you reject anyone elses ability to explain it, without logical reason or proof.
* When asked to proof that god does not exist, you don’t even get a description of it. Is it a giant spaghetti monster? Is it a giant on a throne floating in space? Is it a man with a heavy and unbreakable hammer? Or with oceanic powers? What depiction of god do you need us to apply our logic upon?
* Because of the claim ”God transcends logic” any logical explanation in a world where only logical things are witnessed, is useless against a believer in such entity.
* If God transcends logic, everyone can think up of an illogical God and be equally valid, which means that we have no way of telling which one is right, which one is wrong or how they differ. And it also cannot be known if people talk about the same god or not.
* If you can reconcile every direct kill order god gives in the bible with ‘Thou shall not kill’, you can rationalize everything.
* Arguments determine facts: false. Facts are to be told, but what is told has to be interpreted. Facts are the same, because it is responsible for causuality.
* Proving god’s (properties) existence in a materialistic way does not require giving up faith.
* What does it take for a claim `bout god to be faulty?
* Does god have any materialystic influence on the current world?
* If faith is the norm, why does no materialistic creation of god rely on it?
* Does a good habit explain why an omnipotent presence of god is required for it? No. Claims of omnipotentialism requires proof of omnipotentialism.
* If we are to dumb to understand god, wouldn’t we need to push children to be smarter? Shouldn’t children then be allowed to question everything?
* Hoping for something unexplainable to keep the options open, is perfectly fine, but restricting freedom of will (including hoping) because of it is not.
* It is about God AND also the teachings themselves. So if more and more aspects of the teachings become irrelevant (“It was just misintepreted”) when justifying the definitions of God, what function do the teachings (religions) actually have?
* Is forgiveness in the mind of god the same as described in the bible? Describe how we should forgive beings.
* Is god still creating humans?
> Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
> Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
> Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
> Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
* They be talking about God as if it could be more important then life.
* When you know that believers excersise anti-social practices that do not conform free will, then you know that freedom of belief is not even respected within the religion.
* People who are truly willing to put aside logic to believe everything related to their belief in god, also possess actions based upon that. Such people are inherently harmful because nothing logical in their mind prevents their actions that cause pharm. It requires intervention from others.
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The historical cure to belief systems in general was introducing an anonymous unstoppable ability to question belief systems for people within.
Examples:
– Text projections during religious meetings showing curious (anonymous) questions
– The “Don’t be smart yet, but be within.” movement
– Telescope building and usage for the poor (Cheapest Dobsonian)
– Philosophical lessons from prior to certain religions
– Introduction of “Freedom of logic”
– Space travel became widespread
– The hard work of many Atheism related organizations
It took a long time to turn the tides gradually to logic, but successfully, the religions from old time civillizations past became irrelevant.
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Baltimore area?